As any beauty junkie is well aware, bold lips are back and still going strong—$92.1 million strong, to be exact. According to new market research, women’s love for lipstick can in fact be quantified—and it’s up 11 percent from last year’s numbers. [WWD]
In a sad bit of news, famed coiffeur Vidal Sassoon has gone public [...]

Mélanie Laurent has already said that as the master of ceremonies for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, she’ll be wearing couture creations from Christian Dior at both the opening and closing events. Today, the Inglourious Basterds star’s ties to the famed French house got a little closer. Dior has just announced that the triple-threat blonde [...]

Scarlett Johansson is back in front of the camera again for Dolce & Gabbana The Makeup’s summer color collection. As per usual, she is looking particularly pouty and busty, but this time sporting fuchsia nails, slightly smoked-out eyes, and full brows. [Grazia]
Attention beauty-minded art collectors: Selections from London’s Somerset House’s René Gruau exhibit honoring the [...]

This column features weekly tips and advice from a revolving cast of industry leaders, on hand to discuss your beauty dilemmas, from blemishes to Botox. To submit a question, e-mail celia_ellenberg@condenast.com.
I’ve never been much into masks, but I’ve recently been reading about a lot of models and celebrities who swear by them. Are they worth [...]

Leighton Meester has had a big beauty year. The Gossip Girl not only nabbed an Herbal Essences spokesperson gig but also was recently shot by Carter Smith for Vera Wang’s upcoming women’s fragrance. She killed it on the Country Strong red carpet last night—somebody get this girl a makeup contract stat! Sporting a multi-colored Dior [...]

We’ve been looking forward to Natalie Portman’s Black Swan press junket for months. Let us be the first to say that the star’s red-carpet cameo at the New York premiere last night did not disappoint. Decked in a floor-length, off-the-shoulder Dior gown, Portman modeled glamorous filled-in brows and a thin black cat-eye, courtesy of her [...]

For the past 60 years, red has been an important color to the house of Dior, traceable to the moment when Christian himself, a keen gardener, picked out a perfect rose and proclaimed its deep scarlet shade one of distinction. Not happy to just let it wilt in a vase on his mantel, the couturier [...]

The pre-Golden Globes events circuit kicked into high gear this past weekend with a Dior-sponsored cocktail party for brand spokesperson Marion Cotillard at the Chateau Marmont in L.A. The Nine actress wore Dior, of course, and a head full of curls. Her frizzy spirals made us think of flapper-era heroines like Clara Bow and Theda [...]

HSN has three words for naysayers who think you can’t sell perfume on TV: Sean Puffy Combs. The hip-hop mogul-turned-designer will be hawking his I Am King and Unforgivable fragrances on the home shopping channel come Monday. [WWD]
Worried about smile lines? Take solace in knowing that women in the 1920s and ’30s were just as [...]

It’s official: The lavish party has replaced the casual luncheon for perfume launches. Last month, Dior fêted the tenth anniversary of its J’Adore fragrance at the Boom Boom Room, and last night, two of Fall’s biggest flacons made after-dark debuts. First up, the Monkey Bar, where Helena Rubinstein celebrated the arrival of its first scent [...]